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Swami Vivekananda’s dearest disciple was Sister Nivedita. Everybody called her Sister. And a few times even Vivekananda also said Sister. But Tagore went one step forward: he called her Lokamata, Mother of all human beings, or Mother of the common people.47
RTM 129. December 26th, 2005. Previously unpublished.↩
Sri Chinmoy, Rabindranath Tagore: the moon of Bengal’s Heart, Agni Press, 2011